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Word: bellyful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Indignant snorts on behalf of two amateur astronomers went up in London and in Potsdam as the ringed planet Saturn last week placidly continued to whirl in & out of Earthling's sight the great spot which last fortnight erupted on its protuberant belly (TIME, Aug. 14). Washington's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Saturn's Canker (Cont'd) | 8/21/1933 | See Source »

¶ To a vacant house near Haverford, Pa., Frank A. McClatchy, rich real estate broker, took two men who said they wanted to buy a home. The minute they stepped inside the "customers" seized Broker McClatchy, bent his arms behind his back, shouted: "You're kidnapped!" McClatchy flung them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Kidnappers' Week | 7/31/1933 | See Source »

Yokels gaped and the nation's bustled churchwomen bawled righteous indignation when Little Egypt undulated her brown, pneumatic belly at Chicago in 1893. No more, no less rowdy than the Columbian Exposition, Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition last week found itself the scene of a turpitudinous squabble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Fair Without Pants | 7/31/1933 | See Source »

They picked his engine off his neck, His prop from out his belly-o. They sewed him in his uniform, And sent him home to Nelly-o, Crashed plumb to jelly-o- Don't lose your flying speed! He did a bank at ninety feet, It was a kinda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Air Chanteys | 6/19/1933 | See Source »

Sideshow. Still spotlighted throughout the investigation's second week was big-bodied John Pierpont Morgan, though he was not again called to the witness stand. Hour after hour he sat to one side in a spindly little chair watching the proceedings. Clustered about him were his partners. Not a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wealth on Trial | 6/12/1933 | See Source »

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